How to Use orphanage in a Sentence

orphanage

noun
Definition of orphanagenext
  • After the death of his parents, he was raised in an orphanage.
  • So the footage was scrubbed and the trio reshot the number more simply, inside the orphanage.
    — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • Katia, Vlad, and Misha spent 11 days hiding in the home of a staff nurse near the orphanage.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2022
  • How else could a child make sense of being in an orphanage?
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Lillian was one of the smartest and most talented girls in the orphanage.
    — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • In 1942, his Jewish school was closed, leaving Carl to play chess and read books in the orphanage.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The then-teenager would have bruises on him from his time at the orphanage, Rines recalled to the Post.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In the very first days of filming, the crew found themselves in danger -- on the way to the orphanage their car came under shelling.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Young girls housed in an orphanage are being taught to read or make lace.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • The mother went straight to the orphanage, which was in another town.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Prom Draw was started in the 1920s in order to include local kids from the orphanage in the prom fun.
    — Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In photos taken at the time, the chateau looks more like an orphanage than a real home.
    — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2023
  • A day later, Colleen Thompson called the orphanage where the girl lived, asking how to adopt her.
    — Rachel Berry, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The Australian actress plays Sister Eileen, a nun who runs an orphanage, in the film.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 26 May 2023
  • Questions were also raised over the conduct of staff at the orphanage.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Bhagya, 12, is still in an orphanage in Nepal, where Aaron and Emma Skalka met her eight years ago.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • Colson spent the first nine years of his life in Haiti and was in an orphanage after his father passed away.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The orphanage took Sonia in but soon could manage to feed the orphans only three beans a day.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Last month, he was placed under house arrest and his daughter was placed in the orphanage.
    — Dasha Litvinova, ajc, 21 Apr. 2023
  • He had been placed in an orphanage very early on and, at the age of six, was fostered out to a farmer and his wife in County Kilkenny.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Children in a Ukrainian orphanage were moved to Berlin.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • These were pictures of him as a child that his adoptive parents had sent back to the orphanage to update it on his progress.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • There is the story of Yohana, who was brought to the orphanage with her siblings because of extreme neglect.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The Carmelite Sisters later opened an orphanage and day care at the site and expanded the complex.
    — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Having been found on the station bench, the one-year-old girl was initially placed in an orphanage.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
  • There is a teacher here at our orphanage who uses a walker to get around.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
  • There was also the scary fact that the orphanage, which is now being used to house about 90 refugees, is less than 2 miles from a military base.
    — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Her childhood was troubled, Ms. Jones said, with her first four years spent in an orphanage.
    — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Just before his 14th birthday, Schuster and other children at his orphanage were sent to Switzerland via the Kindertransport.
    — Julia Gergely, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • Consider the infamous case of the teacher who denounced a 13-year-old girl for drawing an antiwar picture: the girl’s father was arrested, and she was placed in an orphanage.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023

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